After Christmas comes New Year and New Years clearly signify deep soul searching and assessment of your life especially what you’ve been doing these past 365 days. From there, seniors are compelled to move on from these things, leave them completely behind and start anew hence New Year’s resolutions!
What I love about New Year’s resolutions is that they represent hope and actually looking forward to something. Another thing that makes it more special is that the warmth feeling of Christmas can still affect the way you get your resolutions together. Sadly, soon after the holidays and we go back to our normal, 365-days-kind-of-life a.k.a reality, New Year’s resolutions can be quickly forgotten.
Every year, our resolutions evolve to what suit our lives at the present. Generation to generation, it seems that New Year’s resolutions take different faces, different hopes and different levels of will power to make it work. For seniors, it’s mostly lifestyle changes and new things to conquer. Here some popular New Year’s resolution for seniors:
• Start exercising. I think this is the most popular New Year’s resolution for all ages. By the time you start noticing you don’t look too great in the mirror and the clothes you wear are no longer age-appropriate, that’s when exercising becomes a serious business. For seniors, exercising becomes all the more important due to whatever health condition you might be having right now.
• Reach out to other people. As crazy as it may seem, when you reach a certain age, friends become important to one’s life. It’s because seniors do need someone to accompany them. To share their emotions, whether happy or sad, or even mad. No matter how much you successfully multiplied during your younger years, it’s not uncommon at some point, to find yourself lonesome without someone to talk to. Reaching out to other people, in your community, at workplace, can help you get over these lonely times and enjoy life in general.
• Catch up with friends and families. If you have been busy making new friends, you might have disappeared entirely from your old ones’ lives without you even realizing it. Now is the best year to make both worlds coexist with one another.
• Downgrade your lifestyle. That is, if you haven’t yet. When we say downgrading, it doesn’t always mean we’re going penniless. Downgrading nowadays means doing without the things we don’t really need and disposing of the things that have been cluttering our lives to make way for newer and greater things.
• Learn new things. The more we learn, the wider our horizons. Even if we are already hitting the golden years, it doesn’t mean there are no more to learn. There are always new things to learn, we just have to know where to find them.
